History Series / MiracleWorkers

* ManipulativeBastard: Trig is known to deceive people to get what she wants. She uses Benny to learn everything she needs from him before backstabbing him and becoming an outlaw herself. [[spoiler: Trig would eventually manipulate Todd into betraying his people and run for governor, while manipulating the people into voting for him]].

* TheCaligula: Once Todd becomes Governor of Oregon, he starts dressing up as the Roman Emperor and have orgies in his house, while the town plunges into chaos and ruin.

** [[spoiler: [[AssholeVictiim Todd]] also gets one in the season finale, [[GroinAttack having his dick shot off by a cannon]] and [[TorsoWithAView leaving a hole in its place.]]]]

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Mostly Averted. Though the denomination isn’t specified, Ezekiel is a reverend, not a priest, and he is allowed to be married. That said, he does cross himself like a Catholic in “Over the Mountain.”

* CorruptPolitician: Todd, upon reaching Oregon [[spoiler:with Trig's crew, schemes to become governor of thw state and lets Trig steal, pollute, and commit whatever other crimes she wants in order to stay in power while doing as little actual work as necessary]].

[[folder: Dark Ages]]

* CorruptPolitician: Todd, upon reaching Oregon [[spoiler:with Trig's crew, schemes to become mayor of the city and lets Trig steal, pollute, and commit whatever other crimes she wants in order to stay in power while doing as little actual work as necessary]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Todd is the only one to stick for Trig's rep as a bandit in "Over the Mountain". Suffice it to say, he then [[spoiler:teams up with her to screw over everyone else once the affair between Ezekiel and Prudence is revealed]].

-->'''Prudence''': [[spoiler: Hey, Todd? I want a divorce. (''shoots him at close-range with a canon'')]]

** [[spoiler: Todd also gets one in the season finale, [[GroinAttack having his dick shot off by a cannon]] and leaving a hole in its place.]]

* GuildedCage: A literal example. [[spoiler:Once they get to Oregon, Todd keeps Prudence]] in an actual golden cage.

* CorruptPolitician: Todd, upon reaching Oregon [[spoiler:with Trig's crew, schemes to become governor of the city and lets Trig steal, pollute, and commit whatever other crimes she wants in order to stay in power while doing as little actual work as necessary]].

* AwfulWeddedLife: From the moment they're introduced, it's clear that Prudence and Todd do not have a good relationship, with Todd mainly using her to serve his own needs and making a fool of himself when he tries to act romantic.

* TheImmodestOrgasm: Ezekiel and Prudence both get very loud while having sex.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: After both of their spouses are shown ComicallyMissingThePoint, Ezekiel remarks that maybe [[spoiler:his and Prudence's relationship]] maybe ''isn't'' as sinful as he thought. Immediately, an ox is struck by lightning, and plagues beset the camp.

* ModestyBedsheet: After Prudence and Ezekiel are done having sex in "Over the Mountain", when they collapse back on the bed the bedsheet is around his waist but tucked securely under her armpits.

* DarkestHour: "Over the Mountain" ends with Ezekiel hated by the entire camp after [[spoiler:confessing to adultery]], all of the caravan's supplies trashed, and Todd & Trig kidnapping Prudence.

* FaceHeelTurn: Todd has this [[spoiler: after he finds out about Prudence's affair with Ezekiel. To get revenge on Ezekiel, he teams up with Trig to strand everyone on the mountain and kidnaps Prudence.]]

* FlatEarthAtheist: Prudence comically disbelieves that anything miraculous is going on when clear divine wrath starts raining down over her and Zeke having an affair (i.e. a lightning bolt from the clear blue sky, a kid possessed by Satan etc.).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Todd is the only one to stick for Trig's rep as a bandit in "Over the Mountain". Suffice it to say, he thens [[spoiler: teams up with her to screw over everyone else once the affair between Ezekiel and Prudence is revealed.]]

* GoKartingWithBowser: When Benny the Teen and the Gunslinger cross paths in Branchwater they sit together in the town's saloon and mope about how gentrification ruined what had once been a debauched hellhole. The Gunslinger later cheerfully hangs out with Benny on the Fourth of July, as the federal holiday is a mandated day off according to union rules. And when it's time to cross the Blue Mountains, Benny and Ezekiel actually rescue the Gunslinger (who's now more focused on Trig) from dehydration and let him recuperate with the caravan.

* HollywoodNatives: The Blackfeet in "White Savior" dress in the usual BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins, but most of the tropes related to this are parodied, along with every Native American cliche imaginable more or less.
* IgnoredEpiphany: At the Blue Mountains, after Ezekiel [[spoiler:confesses to adultery]], Todd wonders if he [[spoiler:should've been a better husband]]...but Trig, who's currently the caravan's captive after a failed ambush, instead convinces him to get revenge by setting her free, joining her bandits, kidnapping his own wife, and causing all the caravan's wagons to careen off a cliff. Additionally, before Todd and Trig abandon the others, Benny makes one final plea to Trig that he never meant to hurt her and she's clearly superior to him, but Trig only hesitates a moment before leaving them to die.

* SympatheticAdulterer: [[spoiler:Zeke and Prudence kiss at the end of “Independence Rock” despite both being married to other people. Both are sympathetic characters who have been friends for years, and their spouses are emotionally neglectful or abusive.]]